You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Wisdom comes with winters.
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
I like talking to a brick wall- it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
I am happy in my prison of passion.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn’t possibly have happened.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon.
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.